Will Rachel Reeves hold her nerve over the winter fuel cut?
Will Rachel Reeves hold her nerve over the winter fuel payment? That’s the suggestion inside government ahead of a Commons…
This could be far worse than axing the winter fuel payment
You won’t find me mounting the barricades in defence of the winter fuel payment, though I’ll miss the pleasant surprise…
Thousands of prisoners are about to be released early. Is probation ready?
I met Anthony by the gates of Thameside prison in south-east London. A skinny, gaunt-looking man in his 40s, he’d…
The rise of social regulations
The great surge in Australian productivity took place in two decades during the early years of the present century. It…
Could Britain learn from Switzerland’s tough migrant policies?
The UK is currently struggling with balancing migrant rights and public safety. Record numbers of foreign national offenders are currently…
Will David Lammy apologise to Grenfell judge?
In the fall-out from last week’s devastating report on the Grenfell report, it seems one question has not been asked…
Dreams and schemes of electric vandals
Speaking about electricity, I’d like to apologise for South Australia as we have been free-riding for a long time on…
We should hunt down the companies responsible for Grenfell
I am suffering – and I hope readers will bear with me – a failure of imagination in the aftermath…
Keir Starmer is falling into the same trap as Francois Hollande
There has been no honeymoon for Keir Starmer after his election victory in July. That is hardly a surprise as…
The Greens are turning on the SNP
The SNP hasn’t wanted for its woes lately but now there is fresh trouble on the way. Lorna Slater, co-leader…
Foreign policy realism
The Liberal International Order (LIO) is no more. The days of intervening in foreign lands to protect ‘democracy’ is almost…
Keir Starmer: ‘We are going to have to be unpopular’
In his first major interview in Downing Street, the Prime Minister told Laura Kuenssberg that his government had to do…
The remarkable success of the Allied occupation of Germany
‘We came as adversaries, we stayed as allies, and we leave as friends,’ British prime minister John Major told crowds…
Is the Victorian building industry fixable?
The reluctance to make complaints because of fear of reprisal is the obvious headline grab from the Interim Report into…
No, Joe Biden is not a latter-day George Washington
George Clooney this week praised Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from the 2024 election as ‘the most selfless thing that…
How does New Zealand solve a problem like China?
New Zealand’s most important trading partner is also the nation’s biggest security headache, according to a new risk-assessment report produced…
Orwellian double-speak on international student caps
Australia, and other Western nations, long ago entered an Orwellian era where ‘double-speak’ is becoming increasingly common in politics. It’s…
The sneaky way that Russia is still evading western sanctions
The leaders of the European Union can give themselves a pat on the back. They have, on the face of…
It’s everyone else’s fault
Jim Chalmers has reacted to news that Australia’s growth has been an anaemic 1 per cent (which with population growth…
Why the SNP keeps failing in its war on child poverty
The poor are always with us, Jesus said, and that has never been more true than in Scotland over the…
Enoch Burke is no free speech martyr
This week, when he was returned to Dublin’s Mountjoy jail for the third time in two years, Irish schoolteacher Enoch…
Why won’t the England manager sing the national anthem?
England’s interim manager Lee Carsley has intimated that he will not be singing the national anthem as his team takes…
Blair’s government can’t escape blame for the Grenfell disaster
‘This is a difficult thing to say, but it’s the honest truth – however good your system is and however…
Taylor Swift turns mean girl on Trump supporter Brittany Mahomes?
Now we got bad blood? Billion-dollar pop star Taylor Swift almost had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.…
How Robert Jenrick stole Kemi Badenoch’s thunder
Robert Jenrick appears on course to become leader of the Conservative party within a year of resigning from ministerial office…
